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After this opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his daye,

There are small and greate: the bonde man, and he that is fre fro his master.

For whe God bloweth vpon them, they perysh, and are destroyed thorow the blast of his wrath.

Maye a man be iustified before God? Maye there eny man be iudged to be clene, by reason of his owne workes?

Beholde, he hath founde vnfaythfulnesse amonge his owne seruauntes, and proude disobedience amonge his angels.

I haue sene my self, when the foolish was depe roted, that his bewty was sodely destroyed:

that his children were without prosperite or health: that they were slayne in the dore, and no ma to delyuer them:

that his haruest was eaten vp off the hungrie: that the weapened man had spoyled it, and that the thurstie had droncke vp his riches. It is not the earth that bryngeth forth trauayle,

For though he make a wounde, he geueth a medicyne agayne: though he smyte, his honde maketh whole agayne.

For the allmighty hath shott at me with his arowes, whose indignacion hath droncke vp my sprete, and ye terrible feares of God fight agaysnt me.

That he wolde begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let his honde go, & hew me downe.

like as yf one withdrewe a good dede from his frende, and forsoke the feare of God?

Is not the life off ma vpon earth a very batayll? Are not his dayes, like the dayes of an hyred seruaunte?

For like as a bonde seruaunt desyreth the shadowe, and as an hyrelinge wolde fayne haue an ende of his worke:

my dayes passe ouer more spedely, the a weeuer can weeue out his webbe, and are gone, or I am awarre.

ner turneth agayne in to his house, nether shall his place knowe him eny more.

His confidence shalbe destroyed, for he trusteth in a spyders webbe.

He leeneth him vpo his house, but he shal not stonde: he holdeth him fast by it, yet shal he not endure.

Oft tymes a thinge doth florish, and men thynke that it maye abyde the Sonneshyne: it shuteth forth the braunches in his garden,

But yf it be taken out off his place, euery man denyeth it, sayenge: I knowe the not.